We all know the Republican Party today has to genuflect before their anti-science, expertise despising Id. This is a party that has become cultlike it its insistence that all members sing the same irrational chorus. So how does their front-runner rank in terms of science? According to Hit & Run at Reason.com, not well:
I scored six likely Republican presidential candidates on seven different science policy areas last March. Since the notion that reality-TV star and real estate mogul Donald Trump would actually run for president would have seemed, well, farfetched only a year ago, I didn’t evaluate his views in that article. .. I selected seven topics including a proposed ban on commercial travel from West African countries during the recent Ebola outbreak, climate change, genetically modified crops, the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility, vaccination, fetal pain legislation, and biological evolution.
I’ll give you a hint: Trump scores lower than Ted-freaking-Cruz. On to other matters. Someone asked me what blogs I read the other day, besides Daily Kos, Hullabaloo, Bad Astronomy, Balloon Juice, and TPM, here’s a couple of faves stashed in bookmarks:
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